beam of light

collocation in English

meaningsofbeamandlight

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beam
noun[C]
uk
/biːm/
us
/biːm/
a line of light that shines from a ...
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light
adjective
uk
/laɪt/
us
/laɪt/
not weighing ...
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(Definition ofbeamandlightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Abeamoflightwas passed through a diameter of the cylinder in order t o visualize a plane of the flow.
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The transverse lines are however, very difficult to trace unless they are illuminated by a strongbeamoflight.
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A less powerful torch is not nearly so useful, as it does not throw abeamoflightbeneath the water.
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Abeamoflightis centered upon a decade spent in the dark.
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The measuring apparatus employs a weak, non-actinic modulatedbeamoflight.
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While there are trees, fields, mountains, and streams all around, we are unable to see these all at once with our singlebeamoflight.
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The intensity of eachbeamoflight(the test and control) was adjusted so that they were equivalent as they passed through the holes in the black cardboard.
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In the second series, fluorescein was frozen into the ice and the experiments were illuminated by a narrow verticalbeamoflightnormal t o the ice face.
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Therefore, such materials can control or switch onebeamoflightwith another and could form the building blocks of optical logic, optical switching, and optical computing systems.
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That is abeamoflighton the horizon.
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A thinbeamoflightbroke out over the world.
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Owing to variations in the method of fitting, many of the devices now being used for masking headlamps dazzle oncoming drivers or throw abeamoflightupwards.
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Flashing abeamoflightover the spider will produce eyeshine.
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He demonstrated that the information pattern of a three-dimensional object can be encoded in abeamoflight, which is more-or-less two-dimensional.
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Thebeamoflightscans across the film image from left to right to record the horizontal frame information.
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Field angle is the angle of thebeamoflightwhere it reaches 10% of the intensity of the center of the beam.
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The lamp emits a focal planebeamoflightas two white flashes every 20 seconds.
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As most of their prey can not perceive red light, this allows it to hunt with an essentially invisiblebeamoflight.
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Abeamoflightis sent through the disc, variations in the light intensity are detected and amplified.
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